I sincerely wish that some reporter would ask Trump the following question: “Sir, is your strategy for the remainder of your term to just keep doing stupid shit day after day? I think US citizens want to know.” (Brought to you by Lake America)
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Scott Santens has a wonderful description of Dolly Parton’s effort when Gatlinburg was burned in a massive fire. Worth a read.
I think this famous line from G K Chesterton’s Orthodoxy describes Dolly Parton beautifully: “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
James Carville on a DSA candidate winning in the NY primary:
Lady,” said Carville on his podcast, Politics War Room, I ain’t in the same party as you. I’m sorry, I’m just not…. It’s time for Democrats …
If I’m reading this correctly, L. M. Sacasas is offering insights by both C. S. Lewis and Wendell Berry to encourage us to avoid obsessing over the recent OpenAI/Hugging Face jailbreak incident.
Something I wonder about: since all my bills are now automatically deducted so I don’t have to pay attention…what would it be like to remove clocks, remove calendars, and just live without that structure. Grocery shop when we need groceries, rather than on a certain day of the week; work out according to my inclination; rise when I awake, sleep when I’m tired, eat when I’m hungry, pay no attention to the month or what day it is. Would days slow down? Would my sense of aging be altered? Would I (could i) be unstuck in time, as Vonnegut said? Or would I just…stop?
“Pope Innocent III produced a vicious caricature of an old man, easily provoked and hard to calm down. He will believe anything and question nothing. He is stingy and greedy, gloomy, querulous, …
From Bill McKibben’s newsletter:
44% That’s how much you’d save in carbon emissions by retiring your internal combustion car and replacing it with an EV—even if it was only two years old, and …
“A number of years ago, I visited the Pentagon and stood before an exhibit that chronicled our military’s overt engagements. I was shocked. Today, the best estimate from the Tufts Military Intervention Project is that since 1945, excluding covert operations, the United States has participated in more than 200 military conflicts.”
George Makari, “Thanatos Rising” (American Scholar)
Since a few people in my feed are talking about podcasts, let me take this opportunity to recommend Michael Phillips' (former Chicago Trib movie critic and my former college housemate) podcast …